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Madagascar Dry Deciduous Forests

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The Madagascar dry deciduous forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion in the western and northern parts of Madagascar, in two separate areas: the western side of the island from the Ampasindava peninsula to Belo-sur-Tsiribihina, and the northern tip apart from the high ground of Amber Mountain. The trees have a deciduous canopy 10 to 15 metres high and shed their leaves in the dry winter, and the area includes tsingy limestone massifs, wetlands and grasslands. It has a high ratio of endemic plants, including baobabs, and is home to lemurs such as the mongoose lemur and to the fossa. Most of the forest has been destroyed, and burning, grazing and logging are the main threats.

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Source AEECL's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Ahmanson's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Phaner electromontis (GBIF species record)
Source Ankarana sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Blue-eyed black lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Bongolava mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Coquerel's giant mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Crowned lemur, Species
Source Crowned lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Crowned sifaka (Wikipedia)
Source Danfoss's mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Daraina sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Animal Diversity Web: Cheirogaleus medius (Animal Diversity Web account)
Source Golden-brown mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Golden-crowned sifaka (Wikipedia)
Source Gray mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Grewcock's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Henst's goshawk (Wikipedia)
Source Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Mongoose lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Mungotictis decemlineata
Source Northern giant mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Microcebus tavaratra (GBIF species record)
Source Northern sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Otto's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Phaner pallescens (GBIF species record)
Source Perrier's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Source Pygmy mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Randrianasolo's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Red lemur, Species
Source Red lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Red-fronted lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Red-tailed sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Sanford's brown lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Verreaux's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Source Von der Decken's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Source Western falanouc (Wikipedia)
Source Western lesser bamboo lemur (Wikipedia)
Source Western sucker-footed bat (Wikipedia)
Source Western woolly lemur (Wikipedia)

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Source Madagascar dry deciduous forests (Wikipedia)Lead
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represent a tropical dry forest ecoregion situated in the western and northern part of Madagascar
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1. Madagascar dry deciduous forests (Wikipedia)
  • Threats and conservation
    5.79% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.
  • Lead
    represent a tropical dry forest ecoregion situated in the western and northern part of Madagascar
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Crowned lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Crowned lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Crowned lemur, Article text
E. coronatus can be found anywhere in the tropical dry forests of the Ankarana Reserve
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Blue-eyed black lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Blue-eyed black lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Blue-eyed black lemur, Article text
The blue-eyed black lemur inhabits primary and secondary sub-tropical moist and dry forests in the northwestern tip of Madagascar.
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Mongoose lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Mongoose lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Mongoose lemur, Article text
The mongoose lemur lives in dry deciduous forests on the island of Madagascar
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Red-fronted lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Red-fronted lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Red-fronted lemur, Article text
It lives in dry lowland forests.
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Red lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Red lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Red lemur, Article text
The red lemur's range covers dry deciduous forests
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Sanford's brown lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Sanford's brown lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Sanford's brown lemur, Article text
This species occurs in tropical moist, dry lowland and montane forests up to elevations of 1,400 m.
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Western lesser bamboo lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Western lesser bamboo lemur, Article text
Quote, Hosts: Western lesser bamboo lemur, Article text
Preferred habitat is dry deciduous forest and humid forest which have areas of bamboo and bamboo vines
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Western woolly lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Western woolly lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Western woolly lemur, Lead
where they live in dry deciduous forests
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Perrier's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Perrier's sifaka, Distribution
Quote, Hosts: Perrier's sifaka, Distribution
dry deciduous and semihumid forests of northeastern Madagascar
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Golden-crowned sifaka (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Golden-crowned sifaka, Distribution and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Golden-crowned sifaka, Distribution and habitat
lives in dry deciduous, gallery, and semi-evergreen forests
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Verreaux's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Verreaux's sifaka, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Verreaux's sifaka, Lead
dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar
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Von der Decken's sifaka (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Von der Decken's sifaka, Distribution
Quote, Hosts: Von der Decken's sifaka, Distribution
occurs in fragmented deciduous forests and tsingy in western Madagascar
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Crowned sifaka (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Crowned sifaka, Distribution and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Crowned sifaka, Distribution and habitat
found in the mangroves and dry deciduous and riparian forests of northwest Madagascar
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Western falanouc (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Western falanouc, Ecology
Quote, Hosts: Western falanouc, Ecology
They inhabit dry deciduous forest on the edges of wetlands as well as flooded palm savanna near the forest.
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Henst's goshawk (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Henst's goshawk, Distribution and habitat, forest types
Quote, Hosts: Henst's goshawk, Distribution and habitat, forest types
The primary forests of Madagascar may be categorized as dry deciduous and humid evergreen, both of which are occupied by Henst's goshawk.
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Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Mungotictis decemlineata
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyHosts: Narrow-striped mongoose, Habitat
Quote, Hosts: Narrow-striped mongoose, Habitat
Narrow-striped mongooses are known only from the dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar.
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AEECL's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: AEECL's sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: AEECL's sportive lemur, Lead
living in dry deciduous forests
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Daraina sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Daraina sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Daraina sportive lemur, Lead
living in dry deciduous, gallery, and semi-evergreen forests
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Grewcock's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Grewcock's sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Grewcock's sportive lemur, Lead
living in dry deciduous forests
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Otto's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Otto's sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Otto's sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
only known from dry deciduous forest at its type locality of Ambodimahabibo
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Randrianasolo's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Randrianasolo's sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Randrianasolo's sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
inhabits dry deciduous forests in a small region of western Madagascar
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Red-tailed sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Red-tailed sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Red-tailed sportive lemur, Lead
This species can be found in the Madagascar dry deciduous forests
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Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, Lead
After its discovery in 1992 in the dry deciduous forest of western Madagascar
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Danfoss's mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Danfoss's mouse lemur, Threats
Quote, Hosts: Danfoss's mouse lemur, Threats
This includes the dry deciduous forest, the only habitat for Danfoss's mouse lemur.
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Gray mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Gray mouse lemur, Ecology
Quote, Hosts: Gray mouse lemur, Ecology
It inhabits lowland tropical dry forest, sub-arid thorn scrub, gallery forest, spiny forest, eastern littoral forest, dry deciduous forests
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Pygmy mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Pygmy mouse lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Pygmy mouse lemur, Lead
It lives in dry deciduous forests of western Madagascar.
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Golden-brown mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Golden-brown mouse lemur, Geographic range and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Golden-brown mouse lemur, Geographic range and habitat
The Golden-brown mouse lemur is isolated in the forest reserve of Ankarafantsika National Park, a dry deciduous forest located in northwestern Madagascar.
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Coquerel's giant mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Coquerel's giant mouse lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Coquerel's giant mouse lemur, Lead
This species can be found in parts of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests.
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Ahmanson's sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Ahmanson's sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Ahmanson's sportive lemur, Lead
living in dry forests
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Ankarana sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Ankarana sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Ankarana sportive lemur, Lead
living in dry lowland forests in Ankarana
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Northern sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Northern sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
Quote, Hosts: Northern sportive lemur, Distribution and habitat
small patches of deciduous forests
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Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur, Lead
Quote, Hosts: Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur, Lead
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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Bongolava mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Bongolava mouse lemur, Lead, habitat
Quote, Hosts: Bongolava mouse lemur, Lead, habitat
It lives in western deciduous forest within a limited range
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Northern giant mouse lemur (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Northern giant mouse lemur, Conservation
Quote, Hosts: Northern giant mouse lemur, Conservation
The deciduous forests that they live in are being logged, fragmented, and degraded.
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Animal Diversity Web: Cheirogaleus medius (Animal Diversity Web account)
Animal Diversity WebHosts: Fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Habitat
Quote, Hosts: Fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Habitat
Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs inhabit dry deciduous forests and thorn scrub forests in western
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GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Microcebus tavaratra (GBIF species record)
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)Hosts: Northern rufous mouse lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Quote, Hosts: Northern rufous mouse lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Habitat. Tropical dry deciduous lowland and gallery forest at elevations of 20 - 250 m, which include deep canyons and steep rugged limestone pinnacles.
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GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Phaner pallescens (GBIF species record)
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)Hosts: Pale fork-marked lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Quote, Hosts: Pale fork-marked lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Habitat. Secondary lowland tropical dry deciduous forest from sea level to 800 m.
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GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Phaner electromontis (GBIF species record)
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)Hosts: Amber Mountain fork-marked lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Quote, Hosts: Amber Mountain fork-marked lemur, Descriptions: Habitat
Habitat. Secondary tropical moist forest, dry deciduous forest, and gallery forest at elevations of 50 - 1000 m.
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Western sucker-footed bat (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Western sucker-footed bat, Lead, dry forest ecosystem
Quote, Hosts: Western sucker-footed bat, Lead, dry forest ecosystem
It is also found in dry deciduous forests.
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